{"id":928,"date":"2009-12-19T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T10:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=928"},"modified":"2017-05-20T11:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T10:53:38","slug":"a-gluten-free-christmas-day-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/a-gluten-free-christmas-day-19\/","title":{"rendered":"A gluten free Christmas: Day 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I talked about &#8216;the trimmings&#8217; that go with turkey a couple of days ago; but what about the &#8216;trimmings&#8217; that go with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=828\">mince pies<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/?p=785\">Christmas pudding<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-content\/custard.jpg\" alt=\"custard\" title=\"custard\" width=\"280\" height=\"420\" align=\"right\" \/>These could be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>brandy butter<\/li>\n<li>custard<\/li>\n<li>cream<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cream, whether single, double, whipped, sour (!) or pouring is naturally gluten free, so unless you&#8217;re adding something very odd indeed, this should be fine.<\/p>\n<p>Brandy butter should just be butter, sugar and brandy, though if you&#8217;re buying ready-made, do check the ingredients because as we know, manufacturers do tend to add flour to the oddest things. Brandy, incidentally, is gluten free (unless something is added post distillation). I always make ours, and I do it by eye (and taste), not by measure, so here are a couple of proper recipes for you. Interestingly, both use brown sugar where I use icing sugar (confectioners&#8217; sugar) so I might try it with brown sugar this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliaonline.com\/recipes\/type-of-dish\/party-food\/accompaniment\/brandy-butter.html\">Delia&#8217;s brandy butter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/uktv.co.uk\/food\/recipe\/aid\/512389\">Antony Worrall Thompson&#8217;s brandy butter<\/a> &#8211; he adds citrus zest and spices too<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Custard may be more risky. Traditionally, this is made using cornflour (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/food\/recipes\/database\/realpropercustard_65614.shtml\">Mary Berry&#8217;s recipe for custard<\/a>), and it is surprisingly easy to do, though I confess that when I make custard I omit the cream&#8230; If you&#8217;re buying custard, do check just in case. If you&#8217;re in the UK, then you can rely on Ambrosia and Bird&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Another option is to use a good thick yoghurt, probably Greek. And Greek yoghurt is available at 0% fat, if you&#8217;re trying to monitor such things over Christmas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talked about &#8216;the trimmings&#8217; that go with turkey a couple of days ago; but what about the &#8216;trimmings&#8217; that go with mince pies or Christmas pudding? These could be: brandy butter custard cream Cream, whether single, double, whipped, sour (!) or pouring is naturally gluten free, so unless you&#8217;re adding something very odd indeed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[163,1],"tags":[92,93,91],"class_list":{"0":"post-928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gf-christmas","8":"category-living-gluten-free","9":"tag-brandy-butter","10":"tag-cream","11":"tag-custard","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-from.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}